KEY TAKEAWAYS: Empowering Women nominations due Friday, May 16 Program honors companies supporting women’s advancement. Criteria include leadership, mentoring, equity, and philanthropy. CityBusiness aims to inspire wider workplace change.   Empowering Women nominations are due Friday, May 16 by 5 p.m. Empowering Women recognizes companies and organizations that have shown a strong commitment to supporting and elevating women in the New Orleans area. Empowering Women is designed to showcase tangible and innovative efforts by for profit companies to advance women in the workplace and community. Judges will use a variety of criteria to evaluate companies and to showcase those that have earned recognition. Empowering Women will honor companies that can demonstrate a commitment to some or all of the following: Have a track record of recruiting, hiring and promoting women in their organization. Offer a mentoring program for women. Work toward systemic change in society to combat inequality. Place women on their board or C-Suite. Contribute to advancing the cause of women through outside philanthropic or community endeavors. Provide scholarship assistance to women. CityBusiness hopes that by recognizing the achievements of those organizations that have empowered women, will provide guidance and inspiration to others hoping to emulate those successes. Submit a nomination here. ...read more read less